Chap. 171.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an
act to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county, ap-
proved Murch 29, 1902. (H B 310}

Approved March 14, 1918.
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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seven of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town
of Norton in Wise county, approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen

hundred and two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
Section 7. The sergeant shall be elected at the same time the
mayor is elected, and shall be vested with powers of a conservator
of the peace, and with powers of a constable within the corporate
limits of said town. He shall collect all town levies, and have
power to distrain and sue therefor in like manner as a county treas-
urer may distrain and sue for State taxes. He shall have power to
arrest in said town or within the county of Wise, upon a warrant
issued by the mayor, any person charged with a violation of the
laws or ordinances of the said town, or the commission of any crime
in said town or within a mile of its corporate limits. When a vio-
lation of the laws or ordinances of said town is committed in his
presence, he shall have authority and power forthwith to arrest the
offender without a warrant and carry him before the mayor of said
town, to be dealt with according to law. He shall perform such
an duties and receive such compensation as the council may pre-
scribe.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed. .